Crime and the Hispanic EffectA hallmark of FBI and Bureau of Justice crime
statistics is their failure to distinguish between Hispanic and non-Hispanic
white criminals. Among criminologists this is known as the Hispanic effect.
Addressing this issue at the annual convention of the Union of Nationalist
Zapatistas, the featured speaker, Dr. Prodigy, introduces a technique for defeating
the Hispanic effect. Herein is a transcript of Prodigy’s remarks.
Volume 14, Number 1, August 2012

The
Sex Gap in Mathematics Revisited: A Theory of EveryoneAt
the annual meeting of Women Against the Gap,
Prodigy unveils a model of mathematical ability that
brings together seemingly isolated facts. He
demonstrates that there is a single math ability gap
between the sexes, biological in origin, and independent of race, culture and
geography. Prodigy introduces the theory of Everyone
which accounts for all
available data. Volume 10, Number
1, December 2008

Why
Most Serial Killers Are White MenBuried beneath mounds of sociological data, certain quantities hole up
waiting to be unearthed. Requiring a bit of
digging to expose, La Griffe, with analytical shovel in hand, reveals the
criminality distributions for white, black and Hispanic men. From these he proposes two
recipes for reducing the
black-to-white
incarceration ratio. Volume 9, Number 2,
May 2007

Intelligence,
Gender and RaceGeneral intelligence, its form and
how it is distributed in various populations are among the topics
covered in this conversation with Prodigy. A new kind of meta-analysis
is unveiled, and with it an assessment of the cognitive gender gap. All this and
more when La Griffe du Lion interviews
a celebrated whiz kid. Volume 9, Number 1, January 2007

Politics,
Imprisonment and Race
An adult black man is seven times more likely than his white counterpart
to reside behind bars. Paradoxically, the largest disparities are found in
political domains controlled by liberals -- the leaders in the struggle for
racial justice. By examining how criminal behavior is distributed within the
races, the paradox is resolved showing it to be an unintended consequence of
liberal benevolence and goodwill. Volume 8, Number 1, April 2006

Sex
Differences in Mathematical AptitudeMathematics is a man's game. A gender gap appears early in
life, blossoms with the onset of puberty and reaches full bloom by mid-adolescence. It indelibly
shapes women's prospects for doing significant mathematics. In this
account of cognitive sex differences, Prodigy shows how sex-differentiated ability in 15 year-olds
accounts for the exiguous female representation at the highest levels of
mathematical research. A
female Fields Medalist is predicted to surface once every 103 years. Volume 7, Number
2, July 2005

Cognitive
Decline: The Irreducible Legacy of Open BordersCognitive decline, the result of third world immigration, differential fecundity and gene flow, will mark the end of Western ascendancy. Described herein is the path to collapse and the improbable circumstances surrounding its discovery. Volume 7, Number
1, January 2005

Smart Fraction Theory II: Why
Asians LagDeeply gratified by Mentor's interest in smart
fraction theory, and mindful of his appreciation of its good fit to observation,
Prodigy
offers a refinement to the theory that, notwithstanding the success of the
original, should forever alter the way in which national wealth and IQ are
perceived. Volume 6, Number 2, May 2004

Closing the Racial Learning GapAn analysis of learning-gap dynamics: Wherein conflicting evidence
is
reconciled; a recipe for becoming America's most celebrated education
administrator is proposed; and Prodigy comes of age. Volume 6, Number 1,
January 2004

Assessing the Ashkenazic
IQProdigy presents a lecture to the Brotherhood of Temple
Emanuel at its weekly Sunday morning brunch. Therein he develops a new estimate of the Ashkenazic
IQ, tracing Ashkenazic achievement back to its cognitive underpinnings. Both
general and mathematical IQ are assessed. The
analysis takes into account the fat tail character of IQ distributions. Volume
5, Number 2, September 2003

The Effect of Urban Flight on
IQ DistributionA violation of the fundamental law of sociology is
unearthed, pointing the way to an appraisal of inner-city and suburban IQs, and
the characterization of cognitive discontinuities caused by urban migratory
patterns.Volume 4, Number 2, August 2002

Dogs, Runners and the
Distribution of Human AttributesWith the beauty of Piemontese
ladies still fresh upon his memory, whatever good intentions La Griffe might
have entertained when he sat down at the keyboard to chronicle therewith the
results of his recent musings, his attention was quickly diverted by thoughts of
Piemonte in October, of white truffles in Alba and of the hounds that unearth
them. From this improbable fusion of reverie and analysis emerged this account
of biodiversity among dogs, runners and the tribes from whence they spring.
Considered are such diverse questions as how gender differences in
aggressiveness compare in men and dogs, and whether a European can ever again
win an Olympic medal in distances over 1500m.Volume 3, Number 5, October 2001

Racial
Disparities in School Discipline
There are among us persons of so refined and delicate a nature that they cannot bear the guilt even of crimes they have not committed. Their shame is so great that they turn their considerable talents to serve the demagogues of bias.
In this essay we analyze their efforts to document racial discrimination in
school discipline, and humbly offer advice on how to improve their methods.Volume 3, Number 3, June 2001

Diversity
and Excellence: Are They Compatible?
In 1954, a unanimous
Supreme Court declared that racially segregated schools were inherently
unequal. The Court based its decision on studies showing that "segregated
schools damaged the psyches of black children and their motivation to learn."
But do black students really achieve more in racially mixed classrooms?
And what of whites? In this essay we examine how racial diversity affects
achievement. Along the way we find and resolve a puzzling anomaly.Volume 3, Number 2, March 2001

The Case of the Uncounted Ballots,
Or How an IQ Test Changed the Course of HistoryIn the days following the 2000
presidential election in Florida, millions of words were written analyzing
the result. But few were necessary. Herein, Prodigy chronicles a remarkable
visit with his friend and teacher, Mentor, who evaluates the minimum IQ
needed to cast a proper ballot in each of Florida's counties in 2000. These IQs,
varying widely, reveal the voters' real choice and the margin of his victory.
Volume 3, Number 1, January 2001

Aggressiveness, Criminality and Sex Drive
by Race, Gender and EthnicityCertain human qualities share with each other the property of fuzziness. We call them fuzzy variables. Their meaning, though clear by standards of
ordinary language, lack predictive precision. To make them quantitative, we introduce a technique we call the method of thresholds. With it, we
compare aggressiveness, criminality and sex drive by race, gender and ethnicity. Volume 2, Number 11, December 2000

The Color of Death RowFor those who desire a dispassionate view of death-row justice, let them know that no axe will be ground here,
and lest there be any well-intentioned persons who do not perceive the difference between polemic and analysis, style and substance, pomposity and eloquence, let them
know that it is always the latter to which we aspire, never the former. For those who endure the stringency of this essay, let them also know they
will discover that justice depends on geography, that much of America is fair, and that bias on death row affects mostly
whites. Volume 2, Number 10, October 2000

The
Politics of Mental Retardation: A Tail of the Bell Curve
Political movements have victims, and the cause of diversity is no exception.
Whites, Asians and males are all casualties of the diversicrat, but his most deplorable
incivility makes victims of the hapless. If anyone should deny the politicization of mental
retardation, let him confront the data presented herein. Volume 2, Number
9, September 2000

IQ MattersProdigy and his friend Jesse join Mentor to discuss Prodigy's approaching college choice. Together they solve the mystery of how an otherwise
unremarkable college managed to produce eight Nobel Prize winners in 21 years. Prodigy and Jesse come up with
novel estimates of the Ashkenazic Jewish IQ. Volume 2, Number 8, August 2000

Educating a Black EliteThousands of blacks in the US
have IQ scores above 130, many more above 120. A war is raging over
who will hire them and who will educate them. In the corporate board room where the bottom line
rules and fear of litigation
lurks around every corner, the need to diversify is overriding. It is a cost of doing business. But nowhere is diversity
more alive than on the college campus. University faculty are true believers. Diversity on campus is like God at a revival
meeting. Academics recruit minorities with the passion of evangelists, but diversity does not come easy. Industry and
universities face the same obstacle: the appalling lack of minority talent. In this essay we examine how one university
deals with this issue. Volume 2, Number 7, July 2000

The Death of MeritocracyThe noise has subsided, and with passions
contained we look back at Prop 209 and Hopwood. Our goal: to check for compliance
with the law. To help, we developed tests capable of exposing
violations in exquisite detail. But when we saw admissions data from the
medical schools of the University of California and the Law School at the
University of Texas, we found noncompliance so blatant that simple inspection revealed
it. Butchering a steer with a
scalpel, however, does have its moments. Under Prop 209, the UCLA Medical School
admitted 51 blacks and Hispanics in 1997. The chance of that occurring
without the use of preferences was 1 in 10364. (There are about 10100
fundamental particles in the universe.)
Volume 2, Number 6, June 2000

Analysis of Hate CrimeBias-motivated crime has unique characteristics.
As in heterosexual rape, victims and offenders come from
different groups. Unlike rape, however, hate crime is reciprocal. Each group can prey upon the other. Though not obvious,
these singular aspects incline the data in a unique way. The sizes of
victim and offender groups influence victimization rates in a way that is often more
significant
than intrinsic group bias. Methods are developed for interpreting hate-crime
statistics. They are applied to recent FBI data. Volume 2, Number
5, May 2000

2048An eleven-year-old prodigy peers into the future, looking at the condition of racial and ethnic polarization at mid-century. From the single assumption that earning ability is distributed
differently among racial and ethnic groups, Prodigy develops a formalism to describe intergroup polarization. From this analysis a pair of limiting laws emerge: Prodigy's Laws I
and II. Volume 2, Number 4, April 2000

Standardized Tests: The
Interpretation of Racial and Ethnic Gaps
The interpretation of standardized test scores is full of traps that news media,
politicians and interested citizens commonly fall into. Racial and ethnic gaps,
and particularly their trends, are not always what they seem. A perceived gap
decrease can really be an increase, and vice versa. In this essay we show how to
make sense of test-score data. Examples are taken from Maryland (MSPAP)
and Texas (TAAS) statewide exams, the bar exam and the National Board of Medical
Examiners (NBME) Exam Part I. A coherent pattern emerges. Volume 2, Number 3, March 2000

Some Thoughts about Jews,
IQ and Nobel Laureates A dialogue between
an eleven-year-old prodigy and his mentor leads to a conjecture on the
achievements of Ashkenazic Jews, and an estimate of the mean IQ of the
Nobel laureates. Volume 2, Number 2, February 2000

Black Athletes: Can
Whites Measure Up?One of the under-celebrated
sagas of human biodiversity in the last quarter of the twentieth century
is the emergence of the black athlete. His primacy is so conspicuous in
some sports, that at the highest levels of competition other racial groups
are all but invisible. In this essay, La Griffe du Lion analyzes the black-white
athletic ability gap and shows how to measure it. We introduce the notion
of an athletic quotient or AQ, and estimate black-white AQ gaps. Methods
are developed to show how AQ can be used to make predictions ranging from
the most probable racial makeup of a high-school basketball team to the
probability that a randomly selected white can run faster than a randomly
selected black. Volume 2, Number 1, January 2000

Affirmative Action: The
Robin Hood Effect.In this essay La
Griffe du Lion models the effect of affirmative action on the income of
whites, blacks and Hispanics. It is shown that on average a black worker,
between the ages of 25 and 64, earns an extra $9,400 a year because of
affirmative action. Hispanics also benefit to the tune of almost $4,000
a year. However, being a zero-sum game, white workers pay an average of
about $1,900 annually to foot the bill. Volume 1, Number 4, December
1999

Crime in the Hood.Violent victimization of whites by blacks is modeled
in a racially mixed inner-city neighborhood. Its evolution is traced from
the first black to move in, to the last white who moves out. The probability
of a white being violently attacked is developed as a function of a neighborhood’s
racial composition. It is shown to increase nonlinearly, approaching unity
as a neighborhood becomes predominately black. Volume 1, Number
3, November 1999

The Color of
MeritocracyIn a society based on meritocratic
principles, a pattern of color will emerge that reflects the distribution
of human attributes among racial and ethnic groups. Such patterns have
developed in America in professional sports. In other areas, however, we
have been more circumspect. In this essay, La Griffe takes a mostly
dispassionate look at how to calculate, by race and ethnicity, the outcome
of any competition in which group abilities differ. We focus on cognitive
differences, saving other group variations for later consideration. Depending
on where in the culture wars you stand, the method can be used to test
claims of equity or inequity. Illustrations are provided that range from
the promotion of police officers to law school admissions. Volume
1, Number 2, October 1999

Women
and Minorities in Science.Prospects for women and minority doctoral scientists in engineering
and other math-intensive areas are examined. A calculation of the ethnic-gender
profile of this segment of the workforce is made for U.S. citizens and
permanent residents. Rank ordering on mathematical reasoning ability predicts
that women will top off at approximately 27 percent of this market. Similarly,
rank ordering predicts almost 99 percent of math-intensive doctoral jobs
will go to whites and Asians of primarily Chinese, Japanese, Korean and South Asian
descent. Asians will continue to be represented in these fields well beyond
their numbers in the general population. A study of the math-intensive
academic marketplace predicts that women will top off there at about 22
to 23 percent. Volume 1, Number 1, September 1999